19 Quotes by Jon Tenney

When you get together with childhood friends, for example, there's an intimacy that you instantly have because you share something really profound in your past. There's a shortcut to emotional intimacy if you share your past with somebody. It's really empowering when you're reunited with people who share that.

In between jobs, you think your luck has run out, but they keep on letting me do what I love to do. I really can't complain.

It's always difficult to work out on location, away from home, but that's the actor's life. You go where the work is.

I think most actors will say they always feel like they'll never work again.

In this business, you have so little control over things, but one of the things you can control is who you work with.

All of a sudden, I was a young kid in my early 20s, and I had a couple of Broadway shows to my credit.

Mike Nichols got me my Equity card.

I experience a high on stage that I get nowhere else. I feel its like going to the gym so I won't lose my skills.

I think TV, films, and the stage inform each other. It's good to go back and forth.